[Adopted at the February, 2016 meeting.]
The intent was for PODs in C++11 to be a superset of C++03 PODs. Consequently, in the following example, C should be a POD but isn't:
struct A { const int m; A& operator=(A const&) = default; // deleted and trivial, so A is a // POD, as it would be in 2003 // without this explicit op= decl }; static_assert(__is_trivially_copyable(A), ""); struct B { int i; B& operator=(B &) & = default; // non-trivial B& operator=(B const&) & = default; // trivial }; struct C { const B m; C& operator=(C const& r) = default; // deleted (apparently), but non-trivial (apparently) /* Notionally: C& operator=(C const& r) { (*this).m.operator=(r.m); return *this; } */ }; static_assert(!__is_trivially_copyable(C), "");
This is because of the following text from 11.4.5.3 [class.copy.ctor] paragraph 25:
for each non-static data member of X that is of class type (or array thereof), the assignment operator selected to copy/move that member is trivial;
In this case, overload resolution fails, so no assignment operator is selected, so C::operator=(const C&) is non-trivial.
(See also issue 1928.)